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March 25, 2015

Earlier this year, an analysis of federal data found that for the first time in at least 50 years more than half of the public school children in America are living in poverty. In Ohio, the number is only 39 percent, but it still concerns school officials here who know that poor kids come to [...]

March 16, 2015

Mark Urycki / StateImpact Ohio The days of making ashtrays for high school shop class are over. And the classes now offered go well beyond the old vocational education models. At the 10th Annual High School Masonry Competition held at Buchtel High School in Akron, 40 kids from around Ohio and a few from Pennsylvania [...]

February 5, 2015

Just two days after delivering his biennium budget proposal, Governor John Kasich visited a charter school in Cleveland. The E Prep & Village Prep Woodland Hills School is a successful elementary charter that is sponsored by the city’s public school district. The Governor used the moment to talk about charter reform, his distribution of school [...]

November 20, 2014

Two Ohio school superintendents were among 100 others from around the country who visited the White House Wednesday. They were invited by President Obama for their efforts to introduce technology in the classroom. The president asked them to spread the word of online learning. Mentor school superintendent Matt Miller and Reynoldsburg superintendent Tina Thomas-Manning joined [...]

October 1, 2014

A liberal think tank and the state’s largest teachers union have launched a website that provides Ohioans comparisons of public school districts and public and private charter schools in an area. But a spokesman for the pro-charter school group My School, My Choice claims the site has false statements about charter schools so data can’t [...]

September 30, 2014

Correction: This story originally stated that CEO Gordon did not discuss a bond issue for school construction on the November ballot. He did indeed discuss it in both his speech and during the Q&A segment. We regret the error. Cleveland Schools CEO Eric Gordon called the 2013-2014 school year a “year of disruption that [...]

September 17, 2014

Parents and teachers on Tuesday told the Ohio Board of Education that a recent string of accusations against the Horizon Science Academies is becoming a distraction to student education. Shahrazad Ali, whose grandson is a freshman at the Horizon Science Academy in Cincinnati,went as far as saying that opponents of charter schools are conducting a [...]

August 28, 2014

Kids are heading back to school this week, but some students will be carrying more than books. They’ll bring hunger, illness, maybe the baggage that comes with living in neighborhoods where poverty and crime persist. How do you teach children when life gets in the way of learning? In this edition of The Sound of [...]

August 27, 2014

An educational service center in Northeast Ohio is in trouble with the state Department of Education after trying to open a charter school in southern Ohio. Department of Education spokesman John Charlton says the Portage County Educational Service Center violated at least three rules in sponsoring what was being called Hope4Change Academy. First, Portage County [...]

August 25, 2014

STEM education–that’s science, technology, engineering, and math–has gotten an increasing amount of buzz over the past few years. And now, there’s a twist on STEM: the addition of the arts, making it STEAM. Supporters (including Elmo) say a more focused inclusion of the arts helps kids become creative, hands-on learners by sparking innovation. A recent [...]